Okanagan Screen Arts

Every Monday evening, we host a special movie night at Vernon's wonderfully classic Towne Cinema. The film is often from a new director operating outside the Hollywood studio system but we also screen classics featuring iconic directors or actors.

Tickets - members $6 non-members $8 - debit/credit card accepted

Wine Bar $5 - cash only

We are a not for profit society with an open membership, and each year we sponsor a bursary for a local student pursuing post secondary education in the Arts.

Advanced tickets on sale one week before the show at The Vernon Towne Cinema box office and Expressions of Time.

Upcoming Films

RAMEN SHOP

May 27th

Director: Eric Khoo

Genre: Drama

Run time: 89 min.

Rating: 14A

Showtimes: 5:15 & 7:45

Masato, a young ramen chef, leaves his hometown in Japan to embark on a culinary journey to Singapore to find the truth about his past. He uncovers a lot more than family secrets and delicious recipes.

BOY ERASED

June 3rd

Director: Joel Edgerton

Genre: Drama

Run time: 115 min.

Rating: 14A

Showtimes: 5:15 & 7:45

Jared (Lucas Hedges) is the teenage son of a Baptist minister (Russell Crowe) in a small American town. Although his mother (Nicole Kidman) loves him unconditionally, his father tells Jared he'll have to disown him when the teen admits he's attracted to men.

His mother takes him to a church-run gay conversion program, where they teach the patients that no one is born a homosexual, that it's a choice. He's told that God will not love him the way that he is. However, Jared has a hard time trying to wrap his head around these ideas.

THE BOOKSHOP

June 10th

Director: Isabel Coixet

Genre: Drama

Run time: 108 min.

Rating: G

Showtimes: 5:15 & 7:45

In 1959 England, in a beautiful coastal town, widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) is ecstatic when she opens her own book store, named The Old House Bookshop. Because the shop is located in a heritage building, Florence runs into opposition from some of the locals, including the powerful Violet Gamart (Patricia Clarkson), who believes the building should have been turned into an arts center, not a store that offers works such as Nabokov's controversial novel, Lolita.

However, Florence earns the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy), who's thrilled that the town finally has a bookshop. As Florence's obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one?

Based on Penelope Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel.

For more information on the Okanagan Screen Arts Society, memberships, and their upcoming shows visit their website.